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I like my smaller coach signature, its holds just the right amount of stuff when I'm in a hurry, and goes with anything. I love satchels and totes, but I also lose things in them alot, the coach is just so convenient.

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Metallics, if you don't have any yet. These have now attained classic status, and they have become Official Neutrals.

So if you can afford it, both a gold and a silver, or variations thereof.

And depending on the color palette of your wardrobe and yourself, if you can afford more, something in a copper/rose gold leaning tone, and a darker silver-oriented one in something like pewter or gunmetal, basically a metallic gray.

I was supernaturally lucky, not to mention smiled upon by all applicable deities, djinns and spirits (see link below)

and mine is gold or silver, depending on the light and what it is supposed to be that day, so if you are poor, something whose color can do that trick is ideal, but failing that, look for a gold and a silver, each of which are as flexible as possible, which means simple, classic lines that can be casual or "dressy," depending on what you have on.

Think of the most casual clothing you ever wear out of the house, and imagine the bag with that. Now think of what you wear when you are as dressed up as you can possibly get, and imagine the bag with that. It is not enough that you do not go "ew" upon imagining both. You must go "oooh" both times or it is not the right bag.

Whether you are rich or poor, and can afford one or two or a dozen metallic bags, choose each one keeping those color palettes, both wardrobe and self, foremost in your mind, and if you do not look at yourself holding bag candidates in a mirror as a matter of course, it is imperative that you do this with metallics, because of the increased amount of light reflection activity that goes on. I suspect the involvement of Science, but whatever it is, the wrong color metallic bag can do things to your complection, and if your hair is a color, as opposed to basic black, it can do things to it too.

And to your clothes, and it will do it in all different kinds of light, and there you are looking at it in store light, which is found nowhere else, so you are going to have to do a lot of extrapolating and contemplation.

This is why it is best to buy metallic bags when the weather is cool, so that you can layer clothing items in different color families, etc and look in the mirror holding the bag and wearing those various pieces. Take someone along to hold your layers if the store does not have little benches or cooperative salespeople in the bag department.